As Christmas approached, everything was taken by a certain peace and recollection. It was something that my soul felt, like a whisper coming from on high, more eloquent than any discourse, an invitation to no longer pay attention to other things. It seemed to me that a principle of purity, cleanliness, honesty, goodness and candor descended upon the earth and transformed everyone’s souls: human wickedness receded and the Angels spread their wings. I really had the impression that they descended to earth.